“I have to travel 150-200km a day so if anything goes wrong, I can’t have any rest days I pretty much have to keep motoring,” he told nine.com.au

And from a video update shared on Instagram – it has all gone very quickly wrong, but Williams has embraced the chaos after hurting his knee on day one.

The trip was conjured up by Williams when his teaching contract was about to expire. Williams decided to sell everything he owned, and head to Europe.

“One of the joys of these long trips is you get a lot of time to think and a lot of solitude. I’ll figure out what I’m going to do for the rest of my life on the way.”

While most people probably think this mission is pure insanity, Williams said his family aren’t too surprised.

“They’re really supportive,” he said, adding he’s done similar trips like this before.

“I’ve done a couple of trips but nothing near this magnitude. They’ve just jumped on board and are supporting me.”

On why he chose Paris to Moscow, Williams was fairly casual.

“I had a trip to Europe coming up,” he said.

“I love adventure and it is something I always wanted to do. I thought why not?”

Living in Queensland, the one thing the teacher is worried about is the weather.

Yep, that’s right – the Sunshine Coast local is a little nervous about how he’s going to cope through the Alps at night. It will be summer in Europe, it most likely will be very chilly as he travels through the higher altitudes wearing his bike-riding lycra.

“I’m going through the Alps through in Austria and Switzerland and even in Italy, I’m really looking forward to that,” he said.

“The weather – it’ll be summer over there but in the Alps it’ll still get cold.”

But Williams isn’t going into this lightly – he's been training in New Zealand and recently conquering the ride up to the top of the snow-capped Remarkables in Queenstown.

“It’s pretty cold over there so it’s gotten me used to it and helped me work out what gear I needed for the trip.”

Williams is also wanting to help others with this insane journey – he’s helping raise money for charity World Bicycle Relief, an organisation aimed at helping people get active through bicycles by providing bikes to the disadvantaged.

“I jumped on board with this charity World Bicycle Relief, they provide bikes to people in disadvantaged places. It helps a kid get to school, it helps people get around villages. It’s a really good charity and something that speaks close to me as it’s about getting people on their bike and being active,” he said.

“I work as a PE teacher and work in a bike shop so they’re my passions.”

So far he’s raised $370 of his $1000 goal – World Bicycle Relief can provide a bicycle for a student in need for $195 so he’s close to supplying two bikes already.

Williams said while the journey will be the trip of a lifetime, “getting the final destination will be the holy grail”.

And hopefully Williams will be rewarded for his efforts with a good outcome for the Australian team.